[quote=Ted Schefelbein]Bluing and varnish are put on guns for protection of the materials under them. If the gun is going to a museum, to be displayed with other guns that have been in hard service for several lifetimes, then, don't refinish. But, if it is going to be used and cared for, refinsh it and put it back into service.
The English are so much more intelligent about things like this. A beat up gun gets it's barrels re-blacked, it's stock refinished, any repairs it needs made, checkering pointed up and it goes back into the field, doing what it was designed to do.
I never understood those who worship at the alter of a beat up gun.
Best,
Ted [/quote
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I agree 100%...maybe 200%....The English do it right....
